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This is my 97-yr-old mother. When she accidentally locks herself out of her apartment, does she bother the manager about it? No...she removes her screen and climbs in through her bedroom window!
Grandma will be coming to live with me in about a month. How will I ever keep her in line?
it's all about the view...literally~ I have been practicing with shooting INTO window light. I love to use window light as often as possible, but tend to shy away from placing my subject directly in front of a window. Here, my daughter was using window light to light up her objects of play and I was using it to light her up! ;)
I had to take this with my cellphone as my DSLR was in the office room, and as I expected, Hermes immediately ran to the office once I opened the door. Well, as the saying goes: "the best camera is the one you have in your hands..."
The medieval stone church in Lammi was built in the 15th century and was dedicated to Saina Catherine of Alexandria. The whole inside of the church was destroyed in a fire in 1918 and after that was totally renovated in 1920
My cat Mee-chan looking at the sunset while a storm is brewing in the background... Actually, I had no idea what she was looking at during the time I was taking shots with one hand while holding the blinds open with the other to let the sunlight in. And it was a manual lens so I had to move my head and the camera back and forth instead of turning the lens focus. The shot is a wee-bit soft... Sometimes I need more than two hands. Taken only a few hours ago. The saturated colors are from using a Polarizer filter.
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Meriden has a claim to being the centre point of England, which is traditionally marked by the medieval cross shaft that stands at the heart of the modern village.
The ancient parish church of St Laurence stands outside the village on a hill top some distance to the east. Built of a warm red sandstone, it consists of a late 15th century west tower, a Norman chancel and an aisled nave, largely 13th century in date though the outer walls of the aisles betray a thorough remodelling in the early 19th century.
The interior retains a feel of antiquity despite various restorations (include much recent renovation) and contains several items of historic interest, including two 15th century knight's effigies placed at the ends of the side aisles (that on the south side is particularly fine).
There is some particularly fine stained glass in the south aisle, with two beautiful windows by Powell's in their later Pre-Raphaelite-influenced style, and a sumptuously detailed war-memorial window by Camm's of Smethwick. The glass at the west end can be studied from close quarters from the recently installed gallery.
The church is normally kept locked, but is open on Sunday afternoons from Easter to October and visitors are made very welcome.
There are also very occasional opportunities to climb the church tower for excellent views of the surrounding countryside, but alas I missed the latest opening by a week!
For more detail see this church's entry on the new Warwickshire Churches website:-
she took a photo of the view from her bed in the santa cruz beach house, (it is here, btw) while i was staying in her room and taking this picture.
Near Renfrew in Ontario, Canada, there is a ghost town named Balaclava. It use to be a saw-mill town. We decided to visit the place and take a few shots. I got myself shooting mostly windows and old wood and paint textures.
Unfortunately, one of the buildings has a sign on it saying that a permit was requested to destroy the general store building to transform it into a commercial lot.
Most of the shots got re-worked with Topaz Adjust 3 to enhance the colors and contrast.
Enjoy,
One of a pair of new windows installed in 2018 and made by the Art of Glass studio.
St Mary's church Ullenhall, built 1875 by J.P.Seddon.
From the centre of this village near the Warwickshire/Worcestershire border it appears there is nothing here to see that pre-dates the Victorian Era, however the ancient predecessor of this parish church still survives, albeit in truncated form, hidden from view up winding lanes some distance to the northeast of this church.
The Victorian church is really rather charming inside, all white rendered with some interesting flourishes. The only stained glass was until recently the geometric patterns in the seven apse windows, but this has now been joined by two attractive contemporary windows recently added at the west end.
I have always found this church kept locked, and had never been inside before this trip, however making arrangements with the lovely people who look after this church was easy and they kindly enabled me to see inside at last.
The Verney memorial window in the north aisle at Lighthorne is distinguished by a fine representation of St Elizabeth of Hungary in it's left hand light, shown holding flowers and surrounded by birds, beautifully detailed and a late work by Florence Camm, 1946.
Window of the old Milford, NJ train station. [it is now a bakery and coffee shop]
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”
― Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency